Download or read book AM I THE ASSHOLE written by Dr. Brandon Day and published by New Horizons Publishing . This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A hilariously irreverent take on the modern memoir....you'll never look at memoirs the same way again." -Boston Globe "A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir, Dr. Brandon Day takes us on his lifelong odyssey of hellish introspection and painstaking self-discovery. He chronicles his battles with homelessness, addiction, bosses, teachers, cable companies, neighbors, his children, and his ex-wife to answer the existential question that burns inside all of us, "Am I the Asshole?" -NEW YORK TIMES Brandon Day grew up in an abusive home. All through his childhood, his sadistic and overbearing parents tortured him by forcing him to perform all sorts of unthinkable acts such as brushing his teeth and doing his homework, and by the time he was ten years old he had already become addicted to Nintendo. He would spend hours upon hours in his bedroom playing games such as Mike Tyson's Punchout and The Legend of Zelda as a means to escape the suffering he endured at the hands of his cruel and merciless parents. Without any real skills, talent or drive, Dr. Brandon Day knew that if he wanted to become rich and famous that he would have to tell his story. He would have to write a really self-righteous memoir where he plays the victim and shits all over his friends and family, complains about how hard his life is, and then brags about how he overcame it all. That would be his only way out of the insufferable torture of having hardly any followers on social media. But upward mobility required crafting the perfect resilience narrative. He had to prove to himself and the rest of the world that he was not just lazy, and he was an "overcomer," made stronger by all the bullshit he had endured at the hands of not only his parents, but other family members, friends, co-workers, teachers, wives, ex-wives, bosses, neighbors, and even his own children. However, the truth was more complicated. After he graduated from college, Dr. Brandon's mom and dad kept breaking his balls about smoking too much pot and finding a fucking job already. If only it were that easy. Eventually his parents would kick him out of their house and even force him to pay for his own car insurance when he was just a young, scared, 26-years-old little boy. Dr. Brandon learns to confront his own past filled with many secrets: a marijuana stash he hid in his sock drawer all through high school, phone calls from debt collectors who use strange numbers to try to trick him into picking up, dozens of lost car keys and wallets he never found, and sometimes even peeing in the kitchen sink when he is drunk. All of which led to the unbecoming desperation of a 40-year-old man forced to a reckoning with his own identity. Although Dr. Brandon would go on to graduate from college and become a high school guidance counselor, he found that sweet-ass summer vacations and a strong teacher's union didn't necessarily mean safety from judgment from the patriarchy or American meritocracy. Both a chronicle of the American Dream and an indictment of it, this searing debut memoir exposes the price we pay for the promise of a bright future. Dr. Brandon Day's story challenges our ideas of what it means to overcome—and live life on our own terms, even if those terms mean that you're kind of an asshole.

Download or read book BRANDON You May be an Asshole written by You Are All I Want Publishing and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift for men called Brandon. Are you looking for a special gift for a loved person or someone close to you? This funny husband & boyfriend Notebook / Journal, name personalized, is perfect to write down everything comes in mind - use it for your brilliant ideas, as a to-do list, for phone numbers, for saving your memories, as a diary or planner. Your new notebook: high-quality cover great themed design personalized name 110 pages blank white paper, dotted 6 x 9-inch size This cool Notebook is perfect for: Birthday Gifts Christmas Gifts Name Day Gift Co-worker & Boss Gift Valentine's Day and many more Find other Names and click on the Authors Name.

Download or read book You Must Not Miss written by Katrina Leno and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Us Is Lying meets Carrie in this suspenseful story of friendship, family, and revenge. Magpie Lewis started writing in her yellow notebook the day after her family self-destructed. The day her father ruined her mother's life. The day Magpie's sister, Eryn, skipped town and left her to fend for herself. The day of Brandon Phipp's party. Now Magpie is called a slut in the hallways of her high school, her former best friend won't speak to her, and she spends her lunch period with a group of misfits who've all been as socially exiled as she has. And so, feeling trapped and forgotten, Magpie retreats to her notebook, dreaming up a magical place called Near. Near is perfect - a place where her father never cheated, her mother never drank, and Magpie's own life never derailed so suddenly. She imagines Near so completely, so fully, that she writes it into existence, right in her own backyard. At first, Near is a peaceful escape, but soon it becomes something darker, somewhere nightmares lurk and hidden truths come to light. Soon it becomes a place where Magpie can do anything she wants...even get her revenge. You Must Not Miss is an intoxicating, twisted tale of magic, menace, and the monsters that live inside us all.

Download or read book Devils Within written by S. F. Henson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2018 William C. Morris Award Finalist Killing isn’t supposed to be easy. But it is. It’s the after that’s hard to deal with. Nate was eight the first time he stabbed someone; he was eleven when he earned his red laces—a prize for spilling blood for “the cause.” And he was fourteen when he murdered his father (and the leader of The Fort, a notorious white supremacist compound) in self-defense, landing in a treatment center while the state searched for his next of kin. Now, in the custody of an uncle he never knew existed, who wants nothing to do with him, Nate just wants to disappear. Enrolled in a new school under a false name, so no one from The Fort can find him, he struggles to forge a new life, trying to learn how to navigate a world where people of different races interact without enmity. But he can’t stop awful thoughts from popping into his head, or help the way he shivers with a desire to commit violence. He wants to be different—he just doesn’t know where to start. Then he meets Brandon, a person The Fort conditioned Nate to despise on sight. But Brandon's also the first person to treat him like a human instead of a monster. Brandon could never understand Nate’s dark past, so Nate keeps quiet. And it works for a while. But all too soon, Nate's worlds crash together, and he must decide between his own survival and standing for what’s right, even if it isn’t easy. Even if society will never be able to forgive him for his sins. Like a teen American History X, S.F. Henson’s Devils Within is gut-wrenching, thought-provoking, no-holds-barred look at the plague of white supremacy in contemporary American culture that may have you examining your own soul.

Download or read book The Tutor written by Peter Abrahams and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2002-06-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master of psychological suspense Peter Abrahams returns with an ingenious tale of an ordinary family that unknowingly invites the agent of their destruction into their own home. When Scott and Linda Gardner hire Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled teenage son Brandon, he seems like the answer to a prayer. Capable and brilliant, Julian connects with Brandon in a way neither of his parents can. He also effortlessly helps Linda to salvage a troubled business deal and gives Scott expert advice on his tennis game. Only eleven-year old Ruby—funny, curious, devoted to Sherlock Holmes—has doubts about the stranger in their midst who has so quickly become like a member of the family. But even the observant Ruby is far from understanding Julian’s true designs on the Gardners. For Julian, the Gardners are like specimens in jars, creatures to be studied— and manipulated. Scott is a gambler with no notion of odds, festering in the shadow of his more successful brother. Linda is ambitious, hungry for the cultured stimulation Julian easily provides. Brandon is risking his future late at night in the town woods. And Ruby—well, she’s just a silly little girl. And in that miscalculation lies the Gardner family’s only possible salvation. In The Tutor, Peter Abrahams creates a living, breathing portrait of an American family, their town, their secrets, their dreams—and a portrait just as compelling of the menace they welcome into their home. It is his most chilling, suspenseful novel to date.

Download or read book Painless written by Devon Hartford and published by Devon Hartford. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last! The exciting, steamy, action packed conclusion to the Story of Samantha Smith! PAINLESS follows Samantha through the remainder of her first year in college at sunny San Diego University. Oh, and what about that hot hunk Christos Manos? When we last left him, his life balanced on the brink of disaster. What is going to happen to him? You’ll have to read PAINLESS to find out! Find out what happens to Samantha, Christos, Romeo, Kamiko, Madison, Jake, and everyone else in PAINLESS, the third and final volume of the series! This book is full of surprises!! WARNING!! Once again, the steam factor in PAINLESS is much higher than in FEARLESS (book 1), but similar to RECKLESS (book 2).

Download or read book YOU CAN TRUST ME written by Sabrina Jones and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yasmeen Blake is a very intelligent, talented, and gorgeous young lady with a heart of gold. She has some short comings but who doesn’t. Yasmeen is an administrative supervisor of Social work at a local hospital in California. She is hard working, and she is damn good at her job. Yasmeen is unmarried, single and she is looking for love. After getting her heart broken by Aaron Sinclair, a doctor who works at the same hospital. Yasmeen guards her heart that is until Doctor Mahmoud Shashivivek, the new Owner of the hospital, arrives. Mahmoud is a neurosurgeon. He stands six feet tall one hundred sixty-five pounds with silky black curly hair the flows down to his shoulders and his strong facial fetchers. With eyes, as blue as the ocean. His skin is flawless and blemish free like smooth light creamy caramel. His smile is bright like the sun that revels his beautiful pearly white teeth. His lip like a dark pink rose. With a physique, better than the Rock. Eight pack abs with strong arms and hands. Yasmeen wants to hate Mahmoud but her body longs to have him but he’s promised to another woman.

Download or read book Love Is Beautiful written by JisatsuNoYuyake and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would you know if you keep looking the other way? ••• Merida Love Hollyn is a normal girl who lacks self confidence and she never fights back. And because of that, she often gets bullied by the mean girls at school, earning the nicknames, “Goldfish” “Ugly Duckling” and “Trash”. Her days was always bad as she describes it until a handsome basketball player named Jacob started to get curious about her ugliness.

Download or read book Destiny Calls written by Samantha Wayland and published by Loch Awe Press. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best friends might make the best lovers, but can it last? Patrick didn’t think it would be a big deal to kiss his best friend Brandon. Hell, they’d done crazier things to avoid a bar fight. But getting punched in the face would have been less shocking than how hot kissing Brandon is, and how much he wants to do it again. Patrick, after all, is straight. Or, at least, he thought so. Destiny has never been afraid to ask for what she wants, and when she sees Patrick and Brandon together, she knows exactly what that is. She’s not interested in a commitment, but what could be more fun than exploring this with her best friends? Brandon is a fool. He’s been in love with his best friends for as long as he can remember, and he knows a terrible idea when sees one, but he can’t resist. To complicate matters even further, he and Patrick are both cops, and are embroiled in an investigation that puts them, and Destiny, in an unknown enemy’s sights. Now, the three friends have to fight for their lives—and their hearts.

Download or read book The Crush Revisited written by Shawn Lane and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Olfander escapes his busy, hectic life in LA to attend his ten year high school reunion in the city he left behind years ago, Lincoln Hill. There, at the resort the reunion has booked, his gaze falls almost instantly on the sexy, pretty guy behind the check-in counter. He chats up the guy only to learn he is the assistant manager, Brandon Collins. Tim instantly sets in motion his plan to spend the week at the resort with Brandon's sweet body under his. He has no clue he’s no stranger to Brandon. He went to the same high school and is also going to be at the reunion. Back then, Brandon was a shy, closeted nerd who had a big crush on Tim. Now’s Brandon’s chance to revisit that old crush from high school too. But he doesn’t want to give away his heart this time.

Download or read book Mars Girl written by Jeff Garrity and published by Jeff Garrity. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White House and MASSnews collude to turn the first colonial mission to Mars into a hit reality show. What could go wrong? "Mars Girl is fast-paced, insightful, inventive and very, very funny. Its vision of where the mutual dependence of politicians and media producers will end is both hilarious and a little frightening. Put Karl Rove and Groucho Marx in a smoke-filled room, spin well on a 24-hour news cycle, and you get Mars Girl." -Marc J. Sheehan

Download or read book What Mattered Most written by Jerry Speight and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandon is the only child of Shelly and Rick Seger, a prosperous couple, coping with an abundance of material possessions, a troubled marriage, conflicting career goals, and contrasting parenting philosophies. Lee Kyle lives with his older sister and single-parent mother Louise Kyle, who struggles to provide lifes basics for her family. The two boys meet when Louise moves her family into Brandons Owensboro, Kentucky, neighborhood. Although coming from vastly different backgrounds, the two boys are instantly drawn together, finding balance, comfort, and support in a friendship that sustains them in the present and the future. What Mattered Most is an adult fiction novel inviting the reader to experience and hopefully identify with the unique and rare relationship of these two young men and their interactions with family, friends, and lovers. The story presents a parallel evolution of their lives as they adapt to parental influences, high school experiences, owning high-performance cars, acquiring girlfriends, discovering sexuality, and learning the effects of their choices on their future. The poetry and music of each era is carefully woven into the story to support and enhance the unfolding events and life experiences of the characters.

Download or read book Scarlet Roses Contemporary Billionaire Romance Novel written by L.P. Guleva and published by L.P. Guleva. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning one wedding shouldn’t have landed me an unlimited supply of food from my home country. Running two businesses doesn’t leave much room for dating. Good thing, too. Men treat me like an exotic toy. I guess they’ve never met a Korean girl who speaks with a Russian accent. Few dig deep enough to realize I’m from Uzbekistan, not that it helps in the exotic department. When Damian Hughes, the owner of the hotel where I’m organizing a wedding, asks me out, I ignore my attraction to him and say no. Apparently, no means he should hire me to organize a Christmas party at his hotel. The party he wants to micromanage, although I suspect he goes tablecloths shopping with me just to annoy me. I don’t want to like him. I really don’t. Why does he have to be so sweet? Obsessive, but so, so sweet, and that’s before he discovers my weakness for food. There are dishes I haven’t had since I left Uzbekistan. Damian finds them for me and bribes me into giving him a chance. So, fine. I’ll go out with him, but I’m doing it for the melons. I can’t fall for him. Because sooner or later he would say something to tear my already battered heart to pieces. If you like Shain Rose, Claire Contreras, Daisy Allen, and Heather M. Orgeron, then Scarlet Roses is for you. Scarlet Roses is an interracial multicultural contemporary billionaire romance novel with an alpha CEO hero. He falls first and keeps is as a secret desire. It’s a steamy holiday Christmas book with independent Asian heroine white man, sensual love.

Download or read book Five High written by Bamberger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five boys grow up together and they are all very different from everyone else. You can say Kyle is the genius and proper one of the group. Brandon and Niko are the two jokesters who love to kid around. Mace is what you can call "unique". And Darious, he's just trying to figure it all out. Together they go through many trials and tribulations. Their lives are filled with mountain climbing, shootings, shocking secrets and so much more. But through it all they are true to each other, their group, Five High.

Download or read book The Amateurs written by Liz Harmer and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Harmer takes cues from Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy in this sharp debut, a cautionary tale of tech gone astray." —Toronto Life In a time and place only slightly removed from now, PINA, the world’s largest tech company, has introduced society to a new product called “Port.” This irresistible space-time travel device is mysteriously powered by nostalgia and longing: Step inside a Port and find yourself transported any place your heart desires, real or imagined. Earth’s population plummets when many who pass through its portal don’t come back—either unwilling or unable to return. In The Amateurs, Liz Harmer has crafted a subtle, many-faceted debut novel about rapture and romance—and the strange, dark, powerful alchemy that happens when technology meets desire.

Download or read book In Harm s Way written by Ridley Pearson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming's budding relationship with photographer Fiona Kenshaw hits a rough patch after Fiona is involved in a heroic river rescue. Then Walt gets a phone call that changes everything: Lou Boldt, a police sergeant from Seattle, calls to report that a recent murder may have a Sun Valley connection. Walt knows there's a link-but can he pull the pieces together in time?

Download or read book Fearless Boxed Set Collecting Fearless Reckless Painless written by Devon Hartford and published by Devon Hartford. This book was released on 2016-10-16 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting The Story of Samantha Smith #1-3 Three full-length novels: Fearless, Reckless, and Painless At the age of sixteen, Samantha Smith’s innocence was shattered in the blink of an eye. She kept the pain to herself for three years, burying her terrible secret beneath black clothes and black makeup, afraid to tell anyone. The price for her silence was the loss of her happiness and all of her friends. After moving from stuffy Washington D.C. to laid back San Diego, where Samantha is now a freshman at San Diego University, she is determined to find new friends and reclaim her optimistic spirit. Having thrown away her goth exterior, she hopes that her new sunny look will heal her wounds. Dreaming of adventure, she wishes to escape the humdrum middle-class existence that has repressed her fiery nature for as long as she can remember. But her parents are pressuring her to major in Accounting because it’s the safe thing to do. Samantha secretly considers ditching the business major to study Art, a choice that would horrify her parents if they ever found out. When Samantha crosses paths with a troubled, handsome, tattoo-clad bad boy, her life spins into overdrive, and Samantha finds herself juggling more adventure than she ever dreamed possible.